Congratulations to Betsy Rolland, HCDE PhD 2013 and former CSC Lab student, for being awarded a very competitive National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Prevention Fellowship. As part of this postdoctoral fellowship, NCI will fully fund pursuit of a Masters degree in Public Health, followed by up to 3 years of funded research under the mentorship of investigators at the National Cancer Institute. Betsy will begin her studies at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health this summer.…

by Anne Rørbæk Olesen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7… Part of my morning ritual at HCDE was to count the steps until I reached the fourth floor at Sieg Hall. I spent three great months at the CSC lab, February to May 2014, and each day I climbed those stairs, it felt as if I got one step closer to heaven (aka. finishing my PhD and grasping what research is all about). I visited the CSC lab as…

Playing a little catch up with some CSC Lab news items. CSC Lab is now located on the 4th floor of Sieg in a larger, renovated space and is co-located with the labs of Dr. Mark Zachry and Dr. Kate Starbird. Our combined groups are still coming up with a name for the shared lab space. Stay tuned! Three undergraduate researchers have joined the lab to work on two different NSF-sponsored projects investigating various aspects of collaborative cyberinfrastructure development and…

I was recently accepted to Northwestern University’s InfoSocial 2013 for my work, “Understanding Parents’ and Children’s Relationships to Sentimental Objects to Inform the Design of Record-keeping Systems for Parents.” InfoSoc is a graduate student research conference hosted by Northwestern’s Media, Society, & Technology doctoral program. My proposal described research I conducted with Nikki Lee as a research assistant for Professor Julie Kientz in our department, Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE). An abstract follows: We are interested in designing technology…

Congratulations to Dr. Betsy Rolland for successfully defending and filing her dissertation last month: Greater than the Sum of its Parts:” Coordinating Centers as Facilitators of Network-Level Work in Cancer Epidemiology Coordinating Center Enabled Networks. Best wishes on your continued work at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center! Dissertation Abstract As collaborative research has increased in size and scope, the overhead of managing such large endeavors has also increased. In cancer epidemiology, one tool used to address the challenges of…

CSCW has the following publications in press. Also coming up in late June are presentations a the Human Computer Interaction Consortium workshop in California (Lee and Bietz)  and the Science of Team Science conference (Rolland and Lee) in Illinois. Congratulations to all! Journal of CSCW “Supporting Scientific Collaboration: Methods, Tools, and Concepts” Marina Jirotka, Charlotte P. Lee, Gary M. Olson This paper discusses the interrelationship between e-Science and CSCW in terms of key substantive, methodological and conceptual innovations made in…

On December 7, 2012 Alex Thayer defended his dissertation entitled “Understanding University Students’ Use of Tools and Artifacts in Support of Collaborative Project Work”. Soon after filing on December 28, Alex started work as a Senior HCI Research Scientist at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara. He is also now teaching a course on Game Design at UC Berkeley’s iSchool. Congratulations, Alex! Dissertation Abstract When designers collaborate on projects, they use an assortment of tools to generate a variety of artifacts…